Articles about "artisan work"

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Being a craftswoman: a job among others. An ethnographic video about the work rhythms of a Tseltal embroiderer.

  • Rachel Barber

Images and descriptions of textile craft production in Mexico, largely created for commercial purposes or to document projects with social impact, often emphasize the ancestral character of the craft or its usefulness in cultivating the empowerment of women artisans on their way to a better future. However, both approaches ignore the concrete ways in which women work in their daily lives. This short film, which portrays a day in the life of Antonia, a Tseltal embroiderer from the municipality of Tenejapa, in the highlands of Chiapas, seeks to paint a more accurate portrait of the place of craft production in the daily lives of women artisans.